The reason for the abstention by the United States is probably because Biden is in trouble and losing his voter base, particularly young people, the street is not the political establishment and they are watching this.

And they must know their country is providing arms used in this genocide, I read 68% of Israel's needs.

Even so Biden is continuing, 100 shipments of military aid under 14 million dollars each to Israel since 7th October.

Of course, Israel will take no notice of the vote or bother about international law, as per usual.

Genuinely seems about right. Glad you're embracing pragmatic policies.

Red and Blue Army!

Sad but hypocritical virtue signaling.

The only way to ensure relief reaches the intended target is to have UN troops on the ground ensuring it does that.

UN forces on the ground mean exposing soldiers of primarily rich, spoilt countries like ours to having body bags returned and a call for why are we there?

Given any UN deaths are about 90% likely to have been caused by the IDF (but will 100% be blamed by Israel on Hamas), this will take the situation to a place no Western power wants to go.

I remember when denying aid to civilians was considered a war crime.

Since the 7th tens of thousands of innocent people have lost their lives. To me, at the rudimental level, anyone who speaks out against that does so in the defence of humanity.

The whole intractable problem of Israel/Palestine itself exists precisely because very highly paid people (UN) undertook a road to hell out of good intentions.....A completely stupid one with predictable consequences of course but since when do non corruptible intelligent people ever rise to these positions.

It's something you see repeated almost ad nauseum.

Just like Syria, just like Iraq, just like Libya anyone sensible who doesn't just nod along to the bought media knows the best thing we can do is stay the hell out of it.

We own Israel nothing, we own Palestinians nothing, we owe the whole middle east nothing but trade.

Our elites are incompetents who make our client status with America as obvious as apple pie.

We need foreign influence out of our political class, America need foreign influence out of their political class and we should be trading with countries less interested in fueling blood feuds between peoples who can and will never co-habit on mass.....these are obvious disasters that have been created by ideology but it's fresh and blood people who suffer.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

If all Hamas fighters surrender it all stops in Gaza.

Problem is there are many who view Hamas as plucky freedom fighters etc.

I am sure Israel would be more than happy to have a secure safe relationship with the Palestinians in Gaza and save billions on IDF spending.

It's likely impossible for the civilian population in Gaza to orchestrate an uprising as Hamas have had years to plan for all this.

Every civilian casualty is a tick in the box for Hamas as it keeps the circle of violence going.

Netanyahu wouldn't last long if the war stops

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.